Tuesday, August 18, 2015

I heavily rely on VMware workstation for running all flavours of OS's (from Linux to older Windows versions, and there might even be a MacOSX for iOS development running somewhere, maybe). After upgrading to Windows 10 on my new laptop (with a 1080p screen compared to the previous device I was using), I noticed that all of my machines were behaving strange, to the point that basically none of them were useful anymore.

Symptoms:

Mouse pointer "flickers" around the screen, when clicking/dragging, the mouse pointer jumps to the upper left corner.

This only happens when VMware Workstation is running on the second screen attached to the computer, not on the native screen.

It happens on ALL operating systems, Linux, Windows, and perhaps also on Mac OS X.

Been looking around a bit to found out what was causing this behaviour, and it turns out that it is a generic problem with Workstation itself.

Resolution:

Thank you VMware forums, the solution is to disable "Display scaling on high DPI settings" on the vmware.exe in the C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation folder.

One of those issues that can drive you crazy, have you reinstalling your VM's a dozen of times thinking it is you doing something wrong, etc etc... so hope it helps :).

About Me

I work at an IT company called ThingTank, a subsidiary of the Xylos group. We focus primarily on Internet-of-Thing solutions combined with Artificial Intelligence (predictive analytics). My focus as a technology architect is constructing IoT solutions for our customers, with a personal focus on the devices - both the micro electronics and the programming - and the analytics - mostly predictive analytics using R or Python.